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Georgia Republican Sponsors Bill to Require Investigating All Miscarriages

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Cineaste2/22/2011 3:21:42 pm PST

The nitwit who sponsored this legislation also sponsored a piece of legislation recently to move the State of Georgia back onto the Gold Standard requiring banks to accept and offer gold & silver for all debts in the state. First of all, he’s too stupid to know that that would never pass constitutional muster given that it’s about as explicitly under the purview of the commerce clause as legislation gets but, putting that aside, it’s just f-ing moronic:

Upon the effective date of this chapter, all obligations owned by and to the state shall be converted from denomination in Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Dollars to denomination in gold and silver coins pursuant to Section 50-38-3. On the date of conversion from the use by the state of Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Dollars to its use of gold and silver coins, the conversion value of each coin used as payment of obligations by and to the state shall not be determined by the nominal face value of each coin itself, but shall be determined as follows: